The Lighter Side of Sandy...
Was listening to Mayor Bloomberg "speak Spanish." My whole family was rolling around laughing.
"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness
I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
Good afternoon, Dr. Callahan.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea where you live/work, but I think that it is somewhere in New York.
I hope that you and your family are safe.
Yes, Brooklyn.
DeleteThanks for your kind wishes!
Obviously you're not on twitter.
ReplyDeleteHmm, this guy doesn't really nail what is happening. (In fact, you couldn't in text -- you need audio.) Bloomberg most definitely does NOT speak some pidgin Spanish or Spanglish. What he does is speak perfectly correct Spanish that *sounds* exactly like English. The closest I can come to conveying it in text is to imagine you were told you were to read an English text, but it would be filled with unfamiliar words:
Delete"Yoh esstoy mwee beayen."
No just read that in an ordinary English accent.